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  • Assuming they don’t win, is there any contingency in place to preserve all their data? I don’t know how exactly because I assume there’s an absolute fuckton of it, but it would be such a shame if all of that was lost forever.

    I’d love to see it become like the Pirate Bay, where they squish one and ten more pop up to replace it, but I don’t know if that’s even possible.




  • Mine was/is/will be:

    • Windows

    • Some ancient version of Corel Linux that came on a CD that was free with a magazine that I could never get to work properly

    • Some version of SUSE that I bought from a computer store impulsively, that also never worked properly

    • Ubuntu 6.something that finally worked!

    • Several more years of Ubuntu, gradually drifting over to Kubuntu/KDE Neon as I realised I liked KDE more than GNOME/Unity

    • Manjaro as an awkward transitional phase to becoming an Arch person

    • A split between full Arch (btw) for my laptop which is the tinkering machine that I’m allowed to break, and Pop!OS on the desktop, which is the one other people use that has to actually work all the time

    • The distant call of NixOS, which I’m currently fiddling with in a VM and is trying to tempt me into nuking my laptop once again.


  • It’s an older interview, but I like to bring this up whenever Kaspersky comes up as a topic:

    If you had the power to change up to three things in the world today that are related to IT security, what would they be?

    Internet design–that’s enough.

    That’s it? What’s wrong with the design of the Internet?

    There’s anonymity. Everyone should and must have an identification, or Internet passport. The Internet was designed not for public use, but for American scientists and the U.S. military. That was just a limited group of people–hundreds, or maybe thousands. Then it was introduced to the public and it was wrong…to introduce it in the same way.







  • My theory is that it’s middle-mamagement nonsense. There are too many execs running around with nothing to do, so they come up with little projects to justify their jobs, and it always defaults to stuff like requiring PSN accounts that will fuck up their brand on PC long-term, but will make the numbers go up for this quarter so the one exec stands out. Or like you say, going after a pirate which generates a bunch of headlines but ultimately makes no real difference to piracy in general.




  • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml[QUESTION] Flatpak or AUR?
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    4 months ago

    Personally I tend to go AUR first, then Flatpak and then Appimage if there’s no other choice. Snaps never lol

    The reason being, I find that Flatpaks sometimes have issues with not being able to access certain things in the filesystem which can cause problems. That’s presumably by design since they’re sandboxed and you can fix it with Flatseal or whatever, but it’s an extra level of fiddling that I can’t always be bothered with. I do prefer Flatpaks for certain things that are messy with dependencies though (looking at you, Steam.) Appimages I don’t really like because I hate having to go and check manually for updates for each one, it feels too much like Windows to me. But there are a couple of things that only have Appimage versions so I’ll suck it up.

    Snaps I just find to be a huge pain in the ass, and I’ve never found an app I need that doesn’t already have a version on the AUR or as Flatpak or an Appimage, so I really have no need for them.


  • The thing that helped me felt very counterintuitive, but I ended up just picking one family member as a ‘main’ character, and letting the rest run on their own.

    My instinct is always to try and micro-manage everyone in the household, which gets stressful quickly. If I focus on one person and let the rest just generate their own stories I tend to last a lot longer.